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Process overview

Sphereshield Channel Management uses a service account that we refer to as “Compliance admin” or “Compliance officer”.

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  1. Create a new user in Office 365. This user name is arbitrary, but consider that it will appear as the content creator when moving posts and files.

  2. Give the user a license that is valid for MS Teams.

  3. This user must not have conditional access or Multi-Factor Authentication

  4. Assign an admin role to the new user account such as the Teams Administrator privilege:

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This user will have access to all teams as an owner. It should not have access to any team before configuring SphereShield.

 

Part 2

Configuring Admin Portal Integration Azure AD 

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Configuring the Integration:

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1- Go to Settings -> Cloud service services integration and select the following services:

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2- Complete the following settings:

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Groups to be inspected and Internal domain list are not relevant for CM, they will disappear once you enabled CM on step E.

a- Native Application ID:  4bd3cb54-adb4-46e4-b454-16f87dac1182
b- Compliance Admin Authentication type: Using Credentials (if the compliance admin has no MFA enabled) or Using Access Token (if the compliance admin has MFA enabled).

c- Compliance Admin User: The UPN of the user you created above.

d- Compliance Admin Password: the password of the Compliance Admin user.

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3- Make sure that the user has a license for teams and is not a member of any channel/team before configuring.

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Then click on the " Test Azure API connection " to see if your connection is valid 

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5- To check that the credentials are correct, the configuration has to be saved first by clicking on the Save button and then clicking the Check button:

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Setup compliance admin with conditional access

If you are using MFA for the compliance admin Compliance Admin account, please follow these instructions:

Fill out in the compliance admin user filed field with your compliance admin, then change the authentication type to “Using Access Token”Token".

Click on the “CONNECT” button and that . This will open a new Microsoft login window where you can use the compliance admin Compliance Admin credentials and also the MFA.

Go back to the portal and save the changes.

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E- Change the settingEnable Channel Management For MS Teamsto Yesandclick "Save".

Then click on the " Test Azure API connection " to see if your connection is valid. 

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3- To verify that the credentials are correct, you must first save the configuration by clicking the Save button and then the Check button:

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4- Finally, you need to navigate to MS Teams Management and click on the “REFRESH TEAMS FROM API” button:

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